[…] are we picking on Iraq on human rights grounds, particularly when there are so many other repressive regimes Washington supports?'(19) John Brady Kiesling, Political Counsellor in U.S. Embassy in Athens, resigned at the end of February, writing: ‘….twenty years with the State Department…. we have not seen such systematic distortion of intelligence, such systematic […]
[…] who had infiltrated the Palestinians and some left groups. This man ran into him time and time again, including once at a function organised by the Cuban embassy in London. Kelly was seen on Irish Rights marches the night the Ulster office was attacked, medical aid for Vietnam, Portugese meetings and even a demo […]
[…] of Sese Mobuto to power. He was expelled from Zanzibar for subversive activities in 1965 and transferred to Brazil as counsellor for political affairs at the US embassy. Here, he helped consolidate in power the military dictatorship that, with US encouragement, had seized control in 1964. This regime ruled by the most brutal methods, […]
[…] distributor. Floridia cited Stark’s frequent prison visits from Wendy M. Hansen at the U.S. consulate in Florence, ‘Dear Ron’ letters from Charles C. Adams at the U.S. embassy in London, addressed to Stark’s LSD lab in Brussels (these were seized by Italian police after his arrest), and his links with Philip B. Taylor III […]
[…] Frank was picked up a few hours later by the same men. At the time he was getting ready to open an Italian restaurant near the American embassy. Anyway, both men were taken to Damascus, imprisoned and interrogated. According to an account that Frank later gave me, the Syrians wanted him and Korkala to […]
[…] this, the single most important claim in the entire book. David Attlee Phillips admits, for the first time, that Lee Harvey Oswald did not visit the Soviet embassy in Mexico City in 1963. If that means nothing to you, then the book will probably mean nothing. At the heart of Lane’s case was Hunt’s […]
[…] However, it contains slivers of information which were new to me, including some interesting material on the spook-backed journalist, Priscilla Johnson, and Oswald’s visits to the American embassy in Moscow; statements made by David Attlee Phillips and background on former CIA officer, William Corson; and a short biography of Howard Hunt, which shows him […]
[…] but because he feared the cost to his management of the Party. A real conspiracy theorist (which I am not) would see the hand of the US Embassy in the Labour Party’s Partnership in Power reforms (4) because the State Department was the ultimate beneficiary. Similarly, the necessary market revolution against the sclerotic corporatism […]
[…] but by no means least, on the foreign policy and defence front, we have Jonathan Powell, the career diplomat who gave up his posting at the Washington embassy to work for Tony Blair in opposition and now runs his No 10 office as chief of staff. Powell is the youngest of the Powell brothers, […]
[…] Which ones, Professor? The only KGB agent in the story that I can recall is the KGB officer Kostikov who was under diplomatic cover in the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. Oswald – or someone pretending to be Oswald, it still isn’t clear which – tried to contact Kostikov. Oswald’s ‘demi-monde’ consisted not of […]
